Simone Fattal’s artistic practice encompasses sculpture, particularly non-figurative ceramic forms, paintings, collage and text-based works. Her use of materials, such as clay and basalt, situate her works in a continuum of time, linking ancient history to the present moment. Fattal illustrates a literary impulse in her artworks, which were often developed through collaborative projects with the late artist and writer Etel Adnan. The title, In Our Lands of Drought the Rain Forever is Made of Bullets, painted in Arabic over a composite of lava stone, is borrowed from Adnan’s poem ‘Jebu’ (1973). Alluding to the massacres committed in the Levant region since the Nakba of 1948, the inscription sheds light on personal and national trauma caused by war, famine, mass disease, genocide and crimes against humanity.